Garment



June 23, 1970 T. B. TERRY 3,516,093

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W INVENTOR 0 TRENT B. TERRY l l\ v ATTORNEY8 A 3 c 0 7 3M United States Patent 3,516,093 GARMENT Trent B. Terry, Charlottesville, Va., assignor to Pennington Garment Company, Pennington Gap, Va., a corporation of Virginia Filed Dec. 6, 1967, Ser. No. 688,418 Int. Cl. A41d 9/00 US. Cl. 2-433 10 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLGSURE A garment comprising a shirt made from a one-piece main body blank and other additional blanks and pants made entirely from a one-piece blank. A new, economical space saving arrangement of shirt blanks, a new, economical space saving arrangement of pants blanks and a new, interrelated combination of shirt and pants blanks on a length of 45" wide material.

BACKGROUND Field of the invention This invention relates to garments, and in particular it relates to an economical arrangement for manufacturing shirts, pants or both together such as is customary in the manufacture of pajamas.

Description of the prior art A suitable design for a garment such as shirts or pants must satisfy a number of requirements. The garment must not only conform to established size standards, but also it should be economical to produce, that is, it should permit savings in manufacturing expenses. Concurrently, however, garments must satisfy the more aesthetic considera tions such as comfort, attractiveness, quality, etc.

A first step in the manufacture of a garment is to design the pattern of the component blanks for a length of material from which the component blanks are to be cut. Numerous previous patterns are known. However, these previous patterns tend to be fairly specific, that is, specific arrangements intended for a specific type of garment. Consequently, the previous patterns are not truly comparable to the shirt and pants type garment with which the present invention is concerned.

The most pertinent patent of which I am aware and which relates to the shirt of the present invention is the previous Pat. No. 3,066,418 of which I am a co-inventor. The arrangement in that patent is concerned with a shirt having a one-piece main body blank. However, the arrangement of the component blanks in my said previous patent is unrelated to the arrangement of the component shirt parts according to the present invention.

The concept of one-piece pants is illustrated in Pat. No. 2,341,580 to T rageser. However, this patent is not concerned with the pattern for arranging a plurality of pants blanks on a length of material.

I am aware of no patent which is concerned with a pattern arrangement wherein the component parts of the shirt and the pants (for example, in the manufacture of pajamas) are interrelated along a length of material.

Thus, there exists a continuing need for pattern arrangements of component garment parts which will permit a reduction in the total length of material required to form a given garment.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Thus, the purpose of this invention is to provide a new and improved arrangement concerning shirt and pants type garments when used separately but especially when produced in conjunction with each other as pajamas. To

Patented June 23, 1970 simplify the description of the invention terms such as back, front, upper, lower, horizontal, vertical," right, and left, etc., are used below with reference to the orientation of the garment when in use on a person. Obviously, the garment or the parts thereof can assume any other orientation when not in use or during the manufacture of the garment.

An important object of this invention is to provide an arrangement of the component parts of the shirts and pants on the length of material from which the parts are to be cut, which arrangement provides a considerable saving in material required to produce a given number of garments.

The present invention is intended to provide garments of sufficient size to meet National Bureau of Standards size regulations for pajamas from a 45 wide length of material.

The shirt to which the present invention relates comprises a one-piece main blank of suflicient width to encircle the body of the wearer and including, in addition, right and left main sleeve portions, right and left auxiliary sleeve portions, a collar and, if desired, a pocket and a neck patch. The saving in material is realized by arranging all of the main shirt blanks side-by-side with their lower, or waist, edges along one selvage edge of the material. The space between the upper edge of the main shirt blanks and the opposite selvage edges of the material is used for an efficient placement of the right and left main and auxiliary sleeve blanks. With this arrangement it has been found that a considerable saving in material is possible.

Another feature of the invention includes an arrange ment for one-piece pants blanks of sufficient Width to encircle the body of the wearer and of sufficient length to extend from the waist down to the feet or lower leg area of the wearer. According to the present invention the pants are arranged on the length of material with their length substantially perpendicular to the selvage edges of the material and with the waist edges of alternate pants blanks adjacent a first selvage edge and with the waists of the inbetween pants blanks facing the other selvage edge. Another feature of the invention is a pattern wherein the component parts of the shirt and the pants are interrelated in order to minimize the amount of space required to form a given garment. To this end, the collars of the shirts are placed in available areas between the waist edges of the pants and the adjacent selvage edges and in the spaces provided between leg portions of the pants. If the neck patch blank is also required or desired it may also be placed between the leg portions of the pants blanks.

Thus, it is an object of this invention to provide a new and improved method and article relating to shirts and pants and the combination of shirts and pants as a set of pajamas.

It is another object of this invention to provide an arrangement of component shirt blanks on a length of material which will provide considerable savings in material.

It is still another object of this invention to provide an arrangement of long pants blanks on a length of material, which arrangement permits considerable savings in material.

It is still another object of this invention to provide an interrelated arrangement of shirt and pants component parts on a length of material to permit a substantial savings in material.

It is also an object of this invention to provide savings in material while still providing a garment which meets standards of size and which is attractive and comfortable.

Other objects and the attendant advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description to follow together with the accompanying drawings.

3 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS There follows a detailed description of preferred embodiments of the present invention together with the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood, however, that these drawings are provided merely for the purpose of illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention and that the invention is capable of numerous modifications and variations apparent to those skilled in the art Without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

In the following drawings, forming a part of this specification, like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout. Also, where parts are symmetrical, right to left, the subscripts R and L are employed.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a shirt constructed in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front perspective view similar to FIG. 1 but with the front edges separated and turned back.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a pair of pants constructed in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the blank pieces required to form the shirt of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a blank piece required to form the pants of FIG. 3, but reduced in size.

FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate a length of material and show the manner for arranging a number of blank pieces thereon in accordance with the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate a shirt in the closed position and with the front edges turned back, respectively, and FIG. 3 illustrates a pair of pants, the shirt and pants having been constructed in accordance with the features of the present invention. The shirt 10 includes a main body portion 11, right and left sleeves 12R and 12L and a collar 13. The shirt may also include a pocket 14 and a neck patch 15. The pair of pants 16 includes an upper waist edge 17 right and left leg portions 18R and 18L, a fly edge 19 and lower edges 20. It is apparent that the garments could be made from either a plain length of cloth or a length of cloth having an attractive design such as plaid, stripes or the like. To illustrate the features of the present invention, and especially the procedure for converting the individual blanks to a finished garment, the present invention is being described with respect to a length of cloth having a design on the side thereof which will correspond to the exterior surfaces of the garments.

FIG. 4 illustrates the blanks required to form the shirt illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2. There is provided first a main one-piece body blank 22 from which the entire shirt is formed except for sleeves, collar, and minor accessories. The blank 22 includes a pair of lateral edges 23R and 23L which are designed to fold inwardly (into the plane of the paper) about fold lines 24R and 24L, respectively, the latter fold lines thereby forming the front edges of the finished garment. The upper edges of the blank 22 on each side of line 24R and 24L, respectively, then form upper lapel edges 25R and 25L, respectively. The edges 23 of the blank, the edges 24 of the garment, and the upper lapel edges 25 are clearly visible in FIG. 2 as they would appear in the finished garment.

The main blank 22 further includes a pair of right shoulder edges 26R and a pair of left shoulder edges 26L which will form shoulders 26R and 2.6L, respectively, as clearly illustrated in FIG. 2. Between the two shoulder edges 26R is an arm cutout 27R to which the right sleeve 12R will be attached in a manner to be described in greater detail below. The same is true of the left arm cutout 27L between left shoulder edges 26L. The center of the blank includes a collar cutout 28.

The blank is formed into a main shirt portion by folding the two edge portions 23R and 23L about fold lines 24R and 24L, respectively, as described above. The edges 24R and 24L are then folded towards each other (into the plane of the paper) about axis X-Y so that the two upper shoulder edges 26R can be sewn together and so that the two upper shoulder edges 26L can also be sewn together. The shirt is completed by adding the additional blanks shown in FIG. 4. These include a main right sleeve portion 29R and a right sleeve gore 30R which is adapted to be sewn to the main right sleeve portion 29R to form the sleeve which is then attached to the arm opening 27R in a manner to be described in greater detail below. There is also provided a corresponding left main sleeve portion 29L and a left sleeve gore 30L.

For convenience, the construction and assembly of the sleeve will be discussed only with respect to the right sleeve. It will be apparent, however, that the procedure for constructing and assembling the left sleeve is the same.

First, the edge 32A of main sleeve portion 29R is attached to edge 32B of sleeve gore 30R and the edge 31A is attached to edge 31B. The main sleeve portion and sleeve gore then form a tube, the edges 34A and 34B of which form the opening at the lower end of the sleeve and the upper edges 33A and 33B of which form the opening to be attached directly to arm opening 27R of main blank 22. FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate the positions of the various seams in the finished garment. The edges 31A and 31B form a straight seam 31 running along the bottom of the sleeve 14R and the edges 32A and 328 form seam 32 running along the back of sleeve 14R.

In some shirts, for example, where collars or other accessories are used, the above operation would complete the construction of the garment. However, other accessories are often desirable, especially the collar 37. The collar would be attached to the collar cutout 28 and the upper lapel edges 25, the latter being contiguous with the collar cutout 28 after the shoulder seams 26 are formed. The collar is first folded about its longitudinal axis thereby providing a straight upper edge and a curved lower edge having a larger central portion and fairly narrow end portions. The central portion is then attached to the cutout 28 and the two more narrow end portions are attached to the upper lapel edges 25. In this manner, the design appears on both sides of the collar 13.

The shirt may also include a neck patch blank 35 and a pocket blank 36. The neck patch 35 would be sewn to the inside of the garment to form the neck patch 15 as shown in FIG. 2. The purpose of this neck patch is to provide an arrangement wherein the exterior design appears on the exposed interior portion of the garment when the garment is folded as shown in FIG. 1. A label would normally be placed on this neck patch 15.

The pocket blank 36 would be attached to the exterior of the garment to form the pocket 14 as shown in FIG. 1.

The shirt of the present invention is being described herein especially with reference to pajama tops. However, it should be apparent that the features of the present invention could also be employed to form a sport shirt, dress shirt or the like. Cuffs would be attached to the lower ends of sleeves 12L and 12R.

The one-piece pants blank 50 of FIG. 3 includes an upper waist edge 51, bottom edges '52 and a central upwardly concave inseam edge '53. The blank further includes lateral fly edges 54R and 54L, lower fly edges 55R and SSL, crotch edges 56R and 56L and lateral inseam edges 57R and 57L. The garment of FIG. 3 is formed by folding the two lateral edges about the axis X-Y (into the plane of the paper) and thereafter joining the edges 54L and 54R to form the fly, by joining the edge56R to the edge 56L to form the crotch and by attaching the edges 57R and 57L to the upwardly concave portion 53 to form the inseam.

As indicated earlier, a primary purpose of the present invention is to provide a set of pajamas with matching top and bottoms taken from the same length of material. FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate the two portions of a single length of material including the blanks forming the shirt and pants of the present invention. One feature of the invention includes the arrangement whereby the positions of the various elements of the shirt and the pants are interrelated to save space. However, it should be understood that the arrangement of the blanks on the length of cloth also includes a novel arrangement for arranging the blanks of a shirt without a collar and for arranging one-piece pants blanks.

The manufacture of any type of garment must take into account that certain sizes are in greater demand than others. Pajamas are normally sold in four sizes ranging smallest to largest from A to -D. The normal size distribution would be one size A, two size B, two size C and one size D. FIG. 6A illustrates an arrangement of shirt blanks including this particular distribution. All six main body blanks are arranged side-by-side with their lower edges along one selvage edge of the material. All of the sleeve portions required by the six shirts are then located in the space between the upper edges of the main body blanks and the opposite selvage edge of the material. Thus, it is an important feature of the invention that all of the sleeve blanks are located within the total length of the material occupied by the six main body blanks. It will also be noted that very little excess wasted space remains between the various sleeve portions. The result is a substantial saving in material compared with previously known arrangements for shirt blanks. Further, if pockets are desired, the pocket blanks may be placed in the spaces provided by the arm openings 27 of the main blanks.

To assist in understanding the invention all of the main shirt blanks are marked A, B, C or D and all of the sleeve portions are marked with the size for which they are intended together with the letter R or L to designate right and left, respectively.

FIG. 63 illustrates another feature of the invention, and in particular it illustrates the arrangement of the one-piece pants blanks on the length of material. This itself is believed to be distinct from any arrangement known heretofore for arranging pants blanks on a length of material. In addition, FIG. 6B shows how the arrangement for pants blanks may be interrelated with the shirt blanks when it is desired to manufacture a shirt with collars and/or neck patches. The collars are placed in the spaces provided between the leg portions of the pants blanks and also in the spaces provided between the waist edges of the pants blanks and the adjacent selvage edges, the latter spaces being provided adjacent the smaller size pants blanks. The collars in FIG. 6B are also labelled A, B, C or D as the case may be, to correspond with the shirts in FIG. 6A. FIG. 6B also illustrates the placement of neck patches if such are desired for use with the shirts of FIG. 6A.

As is apparent from FIG. 6B the orientation of ad jacent pants blanks is reversed. This arrangement places the widest part of each pants blank, that is the part adjacent the slits 55 and 56, adjacent a narrower part of its neighboring pants blanks, that is, the leg portions of the adjacent pants blanks.

Although a preferred embodiment of the invention has been described in considerable detail and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it should be apparent that the description and drawings are intended solely for purposes of illustration and that the invention is capable of numerous modifications and variations apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claims.

I claim:

1. A layout on a predetermined length of material for a plurality of blanks for forming a plurality of garments, said blank being located on and adapted to be cut from said predetermined length of material which has first and second parallel selvage edges; said layout including, for each garment, a set of shirt blanks, each set comprising a one-piece main body blank of sufficient width to encircle the body and having a generally straight lower edge and an upper edge contoured to form arm openings, shoulder seams and a neck seam, each set of shirt blanks further including first and second right and left sleeve blanks, each of said sleeve blanks adapted to extend from the arm opening of the main blank to the lower arm of the wearer, the body blanks being located on said length of material side-by-side with their said straight lower edges alone the first selvage edge of the length of material, and with the said first and second right and left sleeve blanks located between the upper edges of the main body blanks and the second selvage edge of the material.

2. A layout for a plurality of blanks as claimed in claim 1 wherein said material is forty-five inches wide between the first and second selvage edges, and wherein said set includes blanks for six shirts representing a size distribution of one size A, two size B, two size C and one size D, and wherein the said main body blanks are arranged side-by-side for a certain distance between first and second points on said length of material and wherein all of the first and second right and left sleeve blanks for the six shirts are located in the area bounded by the first and second points along the length of the material and between the upper edges of the six main body blanks and the second selvage edge of the material.

3. A layout for a plurality of blanks as claimed in claim 2 wherein each shirt further includes a pocket blank, said pocket blank being located on said length of material within the arm opening of the contoured upper edge of the shirt main body blank.

4. A layout for a plurality of blanks as claimed in claim 1 wherein said layout further includes, for each garment, a blank for a pair of pants consisting essentially of a one-piece blank having a body portion and two leg portions and being of suificient length to extend from the waist of the "wearer to the lower legs of the wearer and of sufficient width to encircle the body of the wearer and including means for forming a crotch and an inseam, the said pants one-piece blank being located on said length of material with the length of the blanks extending substantially perpendicular to the selvage edges of the material and with alternate blanks having their waists adjacent the first selvage edge and the in-between blanks having their waist edges adjacent the second selvage edge, and wherein each of said sets of shirt blanks further comprises a collar blank, the collar blanks being located in the spaces provided between the leg portions of the pants blanks and in the spaces provided between the waist edges of the pants blanks and adjacent selvage edges of the material.

5. A layout for a plurality of blanks as claimed in claim 4 wherein said material is forty-five inches wide between the first and second selvage edges and wherein said set includes blanks for six garments representing a size distribution of one size A, two size B, two size C and one size D, and wherein the said shirt main body blanks are arranged side-by-side for a certain distance between first and second points on said length of material and wherein all the first and second right and left sleeve blanks for the six shirts are located in the area bounded by the said first and second points along the length of material and between the upper edges of the six main body blanks and the second selvage edges of the material.

6. A layout for a plurality of blanks as claimed in claim 4 wherein each set of shirt blanks further includes a neck patch blank adapted to be connected to the interior back of the shirt below the neck, said neck patch blank being located on said length of material between said leg portions.

7. A layout on a predetermined length of material for a plurality of blanks of material for forming a plurality of pants, said blank being located on and adapted to be cut from said predetermined length of material which has first and second parallel selvage edges, each said pants blank of said layout consisting essentially of a one-piece blank having a body portion and two leg portions and being of suflicient length to extend from the waist of the wearer to the lower legs of the wearer and of sufficient width to encircle the body of the wearer and including means for forming a crotch and an inseam, the said onepiece blanks extending substantially perpendicular to the selvage edges a distance greater than one half the width of the material and with alternate blanks having their waist edges adjacent the first selvage edge and the inbetween blank having their waist edges adjacent the second selvage edge.

8. A method of making a plurality of garments, each garment including a shirt comprising a one-piece main body blank of sufiicient width to encircle the body and having a generally straight lower edge and an upper edge contoured to form the arm openings, the shoulder seams and a neck seam, each shirt further including first and second right and left sleeve blanks, each of said sleeve blanks adapted to extend from the arm openings of the main blank to the lower arm of the wearer, said method comprising the steps of laying out the said blanks on a length of material so that the main body shirt blanks are positioned side-by-side with their straight lower edges along the first selvage edge of the length of material, and with the first and second right and left sleeve blanks located between the main shirt body blanks and the second selvage edge of the material, and cutting out the blanks along the lines indicated and assembling the blanks together to form a shirt.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the said length of material is forty-five inches wide between the first and second selvage edges and wherein the step of laying out the blanks includes laying out the blanks for shirts representing a size distribution of one size A, two size B, two size C and one size D so that the main shirt body blanks are arranged side-by-side and all of the first and second right and left sleeve blanks are located in the space between the upper edges of the shirt main body blanks and the second selvage edge of the length of material.

10. A method as claimed in claim 8 wherein said garment further includes a pair of pant consisting essentially of a one-piece blank having a body portion and two leg portions and being of sufficient length to extend from the waist of the wearer to the lower legs of the wearer and of sufficient 'width to encircle the body of the wearer and including means for forming a crotch and an inseam, and wherein the step of laying out the blanks further includes laying out the one-piece pants blank on the length of material with the said length of the pants blanks extending substantially perpendicular to the selvage edge and with alternate blanks having their waist edges adjacent the first selvage edge and the in-between blanks having their waist edges adjacent the second selvage edge, and the shirt further includes a collar blank, and wherein the step of laying out further includes laying out collar blanks in the spaces provided on the length of material between the leg portion of the pants blanks and in the spaces provided between the waist edges of the pants and the adjacent selvage edges of the material.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,417,529 3/1947 Terry 2-227 2,676,327 4/1954 Terry 2-224 2,835,898 5/1958 Haberman 2115 3,066,418 12/1962 Terry et al. 2--243 X 3,134,108 5/1964 Terry et a1. 2-224 ALFRED R. GUEST, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 2-224, 243 

